U.S. president George Bush’s speech given before the 61-st session of the U.N. General Assembly clearly demonstrated how much Washington’s focus on external politics has recently shifted. The American president no longer threatens to bombard Iran’s nuclear sites but instead looks forward to the day on which both nations “will become good friends and partners.†After finding itself trapped in the military campaign in Iraq the United States no longer wishes to consider war a serious alternative. Instead the U.S. administration is forced into the uneasy and controversial process of diplomacy. That means accepting the necessity of considering interests and demands of other nations and maybe even yielding things that were previously held as solid, the New York Times writes. From the U.N. General Assembly’s tribune Bush basically admitted the ineffectiveness of his political approach through threats, intimidation and military blackmail. Only one month ago the White House said that before U.S. joins the Europeans in the talks with Iran, Teheran must wrap up its entire uranium enrichment program. But now the Washington administration no longer insists on these conditions and quietly agrees with the initiatives of Great Britain, Germany, France and Russia to continue the peaceful talks with Iranian authorities in search of a compromise. “We don’t have anything against Iran’s peaceful program of nuclear energy development. We are working on the diplomatic solution to this crisis,†the American president highlighted. In addition the U.S. no longer demands the international sanctions against Teheran. The U.N. Security Council resolution gave Iran time until August 31 in order to wrap up its nuclear program. In case of Iran’s refusal to cooperate according to the resolution the rebellious country would have faced international sanctions, but the Islamic Republic’s authorities made it clear even before the deadline had passed that they had intentions of complying with the demands. By the way on Tuesday night the U.S. state secretary Condoleezza Rice invited her colleagues from the so-called “Six†– Russia, China, France, England, and Germany – to dine at the fashionable New York hotel Waldorf-Astoria. Originally the meeting intended to discuss the U.N. resolution concerning the sanctions in Iran. http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/21-09-2006/84549-speech-0